Vomeronasal Organ: A Short History of Discovery and an Account of Development and Morphology in the Mouse

It is believed that the first illustration of the vomeronasal organ (VNO) was provided by Frederic Ruysh, a Dutch anatomist, in a drawing of the nasal septum of a young man (Ruysh 1703). About one century later the human VNO was also drawn by Samuel Semmering (Semmering 1809). Only the VNO of nonhuman animals will be considered in the following.